Car ban for 'public transport' Games

By Perry Crooke

12:01AM GMT 31 Oct 2006

The 2012 Olympics will be a "public transport Games" with no car-parking facilities at the main site in east London, Games organisers said yesterday. Unveiling the Olympic transport plan, Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell claimed 80 per cent of visitors to the Games would travel by train, 15 per cent would arrive by coach from park-and-ride sites and the remaining five per cent would walk or cycle.

Jowell was speaking in Stratford, east London, where Olympic organisers unveiled a life-size model of a 140 mph "Javelin" train that will be at the heart of the transport plan. One train every 15 seconds will serve the Olympic Park in Stratford, bringing in 240,000 people an hour.